The day following, it disappeared from the garden, and old Nanny, the housemaid, told me that my aunt had given it away.

" "Our good Nanny means, a Sir George," interrupted Eve, laughing, "and not the Sir George in question.

" Nanny now looked at her young mistress, then at the floor; at her young mistress again, and afterwards at a rocket that was sailing athwart the sky.

Her eyes, however, returned to those of Eve, and encouraged by the bright beam of happiness that was glowing in the countenance she so much loved, she ventured to say "If Mr. Powis were a more presuming gentleman than he is, ma'am" "You mean a less modest, Nanny," said Eve, perceiving that her nurse paused.

"But you have not told me, dear Nanny," she continued, "what you would have that answer be.

Mr. Powis has no home of his own; and, for that matter, scarcely any country" "How can you know this, Nanny?" demanded Eve, with the jealous sensitiveness of a young love.

" "Miss Eve!" "Nay, dearest Nanny, forgive me; I know your last thought, in every thing, is for yourself.

" "Dearest Nanny!

"I've seen juries that were more like nanny goats than men!"

[Sp.], game keeper. escort, bodyguard. protector, governor, duenna [Sp.]; guardian; governess &c (teacher) 540; nurse, nanny, babysitter, catsitter, dogsitter, bonne [Fr.], ayah^. 754.

O NANNY, WILT THOU GO WITH ME?

O NANNY, WILT THOU GO WITH ME?

O Nanny, wilt thou go with me, Nor sigh to leave the flaunting town?

O Nanny, when thou'rt far away, Wilt thou not cast a wish behind?

O Nanny, can'st thou love so true, Through perils keen with me go; Or when thy swain mishap shall rue, To share with him the pang of woe?

Nanny saw her mistress turn pale, fall back, and faint.

Nanny, who had been spoken to sharply by the physician, had been compelled by threats to confess, and after her confession had been overwhelmed with reproaches, had now disappeared.

But Nanny would not permit this duty to be taken from herself.

She stays wid us gal, Nanny.

Now it's a dreadful thing to be butted to death by a nanny-goat, but for a full-sized cowpuncher to be held up by a soldier is worse yet.

Darned if they don't skip like nanny-goats.

Nanny has had three children, two of them are dead; she came to implore that the rule of sending them into the field three weeks after their confinement might be altered.

"I would not have thought it of Nanny Moore's daughter!"

A "Caroline" writes that in climbing the mountain her feet got wet, to which a naïve "Nanny," who was impressed by this, adds, "I too, got wet while doing this thing."

He did not intend to milk any nanny goats, so that settled the goat question for Casey.